‘We’re prepared for drawn-out battle with Republic’

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

Hundreds of Teamsters members on strike against Republic Services, one of the largest trash-hauling companies in the U.S., are determined to continue to fight to win better wages and health insurance. More than 400 workers in the Boston area, along…


BCTGM workers at Teasdale make gains, end 3-month strike

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
BCTGM members celebrate winning new union contract in three-month strike at Teasdale Latin Foods in Hoopeston, Illinois. They got broad labor solidarity that helped win the fight.

HOOPESTON, Ill. — “We stuck together and stood strong and now we’re more united than we were before,” Beatrice Marmolejo told the Militant. She’s a forklift driver at Teasdale Latin Foods here, where 65 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers…


Large rally in the UK opposes anti-Semitism

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Communist League table at Sept. 7 antisemitism march.

LONDON — Communist League campaigners joined tens of thousands at a national march called by the Campaign Against Antisemitism here Sept. 7 to protest the sharp rise in Jew-hating attacks since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom. “I agree with that,”…


Rulers use ‘sex crimes’ to attack constitutional rights

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

The Special Treatment Unit at Avenel, New Jersey, sounds like a medical center. In fact it’s a prison facility where people are held indefinitely and without trial, after having already completed their full prison sentences on charges of rape and…


25, 50, and 75 years ago

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

September 18, 2000 WASHINGTON — They came from cities and towns around the country. Thousands of people converged on the nation’s capital August 26 to demand an end to cop brutality and harassment. The march, which drew between 10,000 and…


‘Workers must fight to take political power’

Break with ‘lesser evil’ capitalist politics
Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Paul Mailhot, right, SWP candidate for New York mayor, at march for Puerto Rico’s independence Aug. 31. “A free Puerto Rico will strengthen the hand of workers in U.S.,” he said.

NEW YORK — “Increasing numbers of working people in the U.S. and worldwide can see that the imperialist ruling classes of the world are steadily marching humanity toward World War III, with everything that means in the age of nuclear…


Defend Israel’s fight to destroy Hamas, stop a new Holocaust

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

The Israeli government is implementing its battle plans to defeat and disarm Hamas in Gaza. Decisively defeating Hamas is necessary to prevent the Nazi-like group from launching more pogroms. It will also remove Hamas’ boot from the neck of the…


Canadian flight attendants vote No! on contract by over 99%!

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025

MONTREAL — More than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4092, voted 99.1% to reject a wage offer in a tentative contract, the union announced Sept. 6. The workers went on strike…


Washington and Beijing step up war preparations, threat of World War III

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Live fire exercises by USS Higgins in Philippine Sea Sept. 1, part of “Exercise Pacific Vanguard 2025,” involving warships of Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and United States.

Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a massive parade of weaponry Sept. 3, alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and representatives of 23 other governments. The display was aimed at projecting…


US hands off Venezuela! Get US warships, bombers out of Caribbean

Vol. 89/No. 33 - September 22, 2025
Sept. 7 protest in Puerto Rico against Washington’s plan to use the island as a military base for attacks on Venezuela and elsewhere in the Caribbean. The U.S. rulers have a long history of military operations in Puerto Rico and attacks on the struggle for independence there.

The U.S. military cold-bloodedly killed 11 people on a speedboat in international waters off the coast of Venezuela Sept. 2, violating the sovereignty of Venezuela, other Caribbean nations and beyond. President Donald Trump claimed, without providing any evidence, the boat…